We are under a county wide burn ban again. This isn't really a surprise considering how little rain we've received recently, but it seems we've been under a burn ban more than not this year. That means garbage can really pile up when you are accustomed to burning it whenever the burn barrel is full.
Right now, that proves to be a problem. Just when we get the girls home and start having bags full of diapers to dispose of the county enforces the burn ban. That means my FIL gets to cart bags full of smelly diapers into town with him to put into his garbage can.
So, obviously, a burn ban means that everything is ready to burn out in the country. The following picture shows what I could see from the top of the hill by our house. This was taken less than 30 minutes after the fire started.
The following two pictures are of the edge of the field where the fire started. This was a wheat field that was being cut for hay since there were virtually no kernals. They think the fire started when the swather hit a rock. The wind blew the fire east away from our place.
And here are a couple of pictures after the main fire has swept through leaving burning bales behind. These bales can smolder for days if left undisturbed. 
They estimate that 250 acres burned. It swept through the wheat field, some pasture and an abandoned farmstead located in the trees seen in the previous pictures.
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